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Dell, HP and Lenovo have had laptops with cellular modems for maybe 15 years at this point.
by venzaspa 7mo ago
Dell, HP and Lenovo have had laptops with cellular modems for maybe 15 years at this point.
- theandrewbailey 7mo agoI can confirm this. I work at an e-waste recycling company, and the vast majority of my inventory is corporate IT decommissioned gear. About 1 out of 10 laptops I tear down has a cellular modem, going back to about Intel Core 5th gen.
- vel0city 7mo agoI've had laptops with cellular modems built in going back to Pentium IIIs. The Compaq N600c had a "multiport" bay on the lid, one of the options was a GSM modem.
- brcmthrowaway 7mo agoJesus, what a waste
- gempir 7mo ago*A few select models got celluar modems. I have owned several Dell, HP and Lenovo Laptops in the past 15 years and I have never had a cellular modem. When Apple makes a change like that it impacts a lot of customers because they have way fewer skews.
- dlcarrier 7mo agoI've never had a modern laptop with a cellular modem, but every one I've owned has supported them internally. Even when they aren't provisioned with them, they're usually still supported as aftermarket options.
- dlcarrier 7mo agoYeah, but any given technology hasn't been invented yet, until Apple releases it.